# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wojciech-kurtyka
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:21:34.564Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wojciech-kurtyka"
name: "Wojciech Kurtyka"
slug: "wojciech-kurtyka"
description: "Wojciech Kurtyka is a Polish mountaineer and rock climber, one of the pioneers of the alpine style of climbing the biggest walls in the Greater Ranges. He lived in Wrocław up to 1974 when he moved to Kraków. He graduated as engineer in electronics. In 1985 he climbed the \"Shining Wall,\" the west face of Gasherbrum IV, which Climbing magazine declared to be the greatest achievement of mountaineering in the twentieth century. In 2016, he received the Piolet d'Or for lifetime achievement in mountaineering."
tagline: "Polish mountaineer and rock climber, born 1947."
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-09-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             1.013664827478551
  historical:           10.41246666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump